selenium-python-helium
Lighter web automation for Python [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium] (by mherrmann)
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| 11 | 6 | |
| 3,696 | 1,927 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.6 | |
| 5 months ago | 3 months ago | |
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| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Posts with mentions or reviews of selenium-python-helium.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.
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Autotab – Boring AI Agents for real world tasks
I don't get why people still use XPaths, CSS selectors or HTML IDs to identify elements, even when they are "recorded". Please please please just use my https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium instead. It makes so much more sense.
- Selenium-Python but Lighter: Helium
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Automating some process with PyAutoGui?
You can, though it might not be the best tool for this. Automation of web entry is better done with selenium, or my favorite variation helium.
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Would you be interested in POM generator for Selenium?
Regarding automatic selectors: check out my open source library https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium.
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Python Selenium Can't Grab CSS_Selector TEXT
quick example https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
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Beginner scraping question for beautiful soup after series of 'clicks' on webpage
If this all fails you'll have to fall back on a web driver like selenium or one of its wrappers like helium.
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Simplest code to load webpage in selenium, plaintext dump and send actions to certain elements
Simplest would probably be not using Selenium directly, but a wrapper like helium. Most of its functions you'd need are listed here.
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PyAutoGUI with CSS Selector
If you're talking about CSS I reckon you want to click/input things on a website inside your browser. In this case you would use a web driver which can automate a web browser like Chrome or Firefox. Something like Helium, Selenium or pyppeteer.
- Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright
- Lookup ERROR while trying to log in instagram using Helium/Selenium
webdriver_manager
Posts with mentions or reviews of webdriver_manager.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-05.
- How to setup Selenium to work with Firefox or Chrome in Fedora?
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The most upvoted comment picks the next line of code: Day 9. Oh, look, it's me!
Also I believe that import is fine as long as this is installed https://github.com/SergeyPirogov/webdriver_manager
- Getting JSON error all of a sudden without using JSON
- Do I need to update my chrome webdriver?
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Can't get Selenium webdriver to work on any browser
Give this package a try. No need to deal with Path, it takes care of it for you: https://github.com/SergeyPirogov/webdriver_manager. Used it today for a selenium project and works great.
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Downloading games easily with a script
I recommend using [webdriver_manager](https://github.com/SergeyPirogov/webdriver_manager') to avoid manually download chromedriver.exe, the module didn't implement its log_level=0 though, to dismiss the logs use
What are some alternatives?
When comparing selenium-python-helium and webdriver_manager you can also consider the following projects:
undetected-chromedriver - Custom Selenium Chromedriver | Zero-Config | Passes ALL bot mitigation systems (like Distil / Imperva/ Datadadome / CloudFlare IUAM)
helium - Selenium-python but lighter: Helium is the best Python library for web automation. [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium]
SeleniumBase - 📊 Python's all-in-one framework for web crawling, scraping, testing, and reporting. Supports pytest. UC Mode provides stealth. Includes many tools.
splinter - splinter - python test framework for web applications
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)
One-Line-Flappy-Bird - fun challenge
geckodriver - WebDriver for Firefox
captcha_bypass - Captcha bypassing methods for Selenium
pyleniumio - Bring the best of Selenium and Cypress into a single Python package
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selenium-python-helium vs pyppeteer
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webdriver_manager vs geckodriver
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